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March 19, 2015 11:55 AM EDT
1.501 k 128 4 In the first half of the '80s, when Depeche Mode was just a baby-faced synth-pop band singing bubblegum love songs, America couldn't be bothered to care. The boys from Basildon, England, were neither as pretty as Duran Duran nor as ...

March 16, 2013 1:00 PM EDT
The audience for Depeche Mode's first-ever SXSW showcase, and last show in the U.S. until August, was the kind of crowd that goes bonkers at the first appearance of a guitar tech on the still-dark stage. The band made their first appearanc ...

March 06, 2013 5:56 AM EST
Depeche Mode will give a rare conference appearance this March when they sit for an on-stage interview at South by Southwest. It’ll be the veteran British alternative rock group’s first visit to SXSW, and one of their first public outings since si ...

March 06, 2013 5:50 AM EST
Depeche Mode will give a rare conference appearance this March when they sit for an on-stage interview at South by Southwest. It’ll be the veteran British alternative rock group’s first visit to SXSW, and one of their first public outings since ...

December 11, 2012 11:55 AM EST
0 0 0 Depeche Mode has signed a new worldwide deal with Columbia Records and will release a new album in March 2013. The influential and critically acclaimed band, comprised of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy "Fletch" Fletcher, had previously s ...

December 11, 2012 8:45 AM EST
Depeche Mode has signed a new worldwide deal with Columbia Records and will release a new album in March 2013. The band, comprised of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher and managed by Jonathan Kessler, had previously spen ...

October 22, 2012 8:05 PM EDT
0 0 0 Depeche Mode will return with a new album in spring 2013, the band revealed on Monday. The group, which will hold a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, will also hit the round in May, kicking off three months of European dates. A tour of North Ame ...

August 06, 2009 2:14 PM EDT
0 0 0 When the synth-pop revolution began in the early '80s, few would have guessed that Depeche Mode -- three androgynous lads from Basildon, England with a fondness for bondage gear and bubbly Casio melodies -- would be selling out stadiums almost ...

May 28, 2009 8:39 AM EDT
0 0 0 Depeche Mode is to reschedule its London O2 Arena show and cancel some European appearances after the full extent of singer Dave Gahan's illness was revealed. The singer suffered a severe bout of gastroenteritis on May 12, leading to his hospit ...

May 28, 2009 12:00 AM EDT
Depeche Mode is to reschedule its London O2 Arena show and cancel some European appearances after the full extent of singer Dave Gahan's illness was revealed. The singer suffered a severe bout of gastroenteritis on May 12, leading to his hosp ...

March 23, 2009 9:03 AM EDT
0 0 0 In a room in New York's Greenwich Hotel, Dave Gahan is sitting erect in a straight-backed chair, immune to the wind outside that's blowing garbage cans down the street. Gahan, the lead singer for Depeche Mode, is a rock star and he dresses ...

October 06, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
U.K. synth-pop act Depeche Mode presented its plans for the “Tour of the Universe 2009" during an announcement at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. In front of over 350 media representatives from all over Europe and about 1,000 fans today (Oct. 6 ...

November 09, 2007 12:00 AM EST
0 0 0 Keith answers readers' questions on Garth Brooks, Depeche Mode and PJ Harvey. NO MIDDLE FENCE FOR BROOKS Keith, Garth Brooks just received an RIAA award as the biggest-selling solo artist with 123 million in album certifications. Can you tell u ...

November 02, 2007 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 In 2003, Kenna was poised to become a superstar. With a load of online buzz and a powerful label (Columbia), he had opened for No Doubt and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. It looked like Kenna would take In 2003, Kenna was poised to become a superstar. ...

October 21, 2007 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 Carrie Underwood ramps back up for her sophomore album, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cement an unlikely creative partnership, Ween is weirder than ever on its Rounder debut and Neil Young stretches The solo debut from System Of A Down frontman Ser ...

May 03, 2006 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 With more than 90 bands playing on five stages, it was impossible to see everything at the seventh Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. So what follows are some of the plentiful Billboard's Jonathan Cohen, Todd Martens an ...

April 30, 2006 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 Depeche Mode, Kanye West and Daft Punk highlighted the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., which drew a record crowd of 60,000 people to the Empire Polo Field Depeche Mode, Kanye West and Daft Punk highlight ...

December 13, 2005 12:00 AM EST
0 0 0 For the Depeche Mode fans that caught the group's show in Atlantic City, N.J., the evening was an experience where the masses fervently worshipped their musical god with dance and hollered prayers. For the Depeche Mode fans that caught the grou ...

June 04, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. After more than two decades as Depeche Mode's lead vocalist, Dave Gahan is singing a different tune: His own. "Paper Monsters," released June 2 on Reprise Records, marks Gahan's debu ...

June 02, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 David Gahan 'Paper'back Writer After more than two decades as Depeche Mode's lead vocalist, Dave Gahan is singing a different tune: His own. "Paper Monsters," due this week via Mute/Reprise, marks Gahan's debut as a sol ...

May 31, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 R.E.M., Radiohead, and Moby will top the bill at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival, a three-day concert that kicks off June 27. Around 150,000 people are expected to attend this year's edition, which is R.E.M., Radiohead, and Moby will top t ...

May 19, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 Depeche Mode gets back on track with Exciter, full of the dark synthesizer riffs and foreboding vocals that first made the group a modern rock phenomenon in the '80s. Depeche Mode gets back on track with Exciter, full of the dark synthesizer ri ...

May 17, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, Dave Gahan, and Andrew Fletcher are laughing. The tension of a long day of glad-handing on behalf of their new disc, "Exciter" (Mute/Reprise, May 15), has been broken by a Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, D ...

March 13, 2001 12:00 AM EST
0 0 0 Veteran U.K. modern rock act Depeche Mode will kick off a 24-country world tour June 15 in Montreal. The trek, in support of the band's upcoming Mute/Reprise album, "Exciter," will wind to a close Oct Veteran U.K. modern rock act Depe ...

January 19, 2001 12:00 AM EST
0 0 0 Veteran synth pop act Depeche Mode will release its first album in four years. The group plans to have "Exciter," produced by Mark Bell, in stores in late May via Reprise. The first album since 1997's Veteran synth pop act Depeche Mod ...